Anne C. Sonis Memorial Lecture 2020

Monday, February 10, 2020
12:00-3:30 p.m. 
Ballroom B, University Club

12:00-12:45 p.m.
Lunch
select members of UPMC

1:00-1:15 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mark Roberts, MD
Professor and chair, Health Policy and Management Tami Minnier, MSN, RN, FACHE
Chief Quality Officer, UPMC

1:15-2:15 p.m.
Keynote Address 
Allan Frankel, MD, Management Partner for Safe and Reliable Healthcare

2:15-2:50 p.m.
UPMC Presentations
"Work related to readmissions"

2:50-3:00 p.m.
Closing

3-3:30 p.m.
Reception

For more than two decades, this lectureship has honored Anne C. Sonis, a loving wife, mother, and grandmother social worker and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh who had a personal interest in and professional commitment to the idea of assuring every citizen the right to compassionate, high quality health care. Sonis was an initiator and first director of the quality assurance program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC. 

Susan Borowski 
borowski@pitt.edu

Cindy Liberi
liberica@upmc.edu

This event is sponsored by the Family of Anne C. Sonis, the Pitt Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, and the Center for Research on Health Care of the Division of General Internal Medicine. The Sonis Lecture is our major annual event focusing on health care quality and safety. The lectures draws a broad audience, including faculty, from residents, fellows, and alumni from across Pitt's schools of the Health Sciences and health practitioners and administrators from UPMC, the VA, and throughout the region.